Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2002, 9:34 AM EST for 7 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 2002, 9:34 AM EST (14:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2002, 11:30 AM EST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Anderson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 502 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMRX 231434 FFWMRX TNC001-093-105-121-129-143-145-231630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 929 AM EST WED JAN 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... ANDERSON COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE KNOX COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE LOUDON COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE MEIGS COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE MORGAN COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE RHEA COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE ROANE COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1130 AM EST * AT 926 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS...WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES. AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF THE AREA DURING THE NEXT 2 HOURS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLANDS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 11:32 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Meigs, Morgan, Rhea and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:14 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Campbell, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | McMinn | 108 min |
| Jan 23, 1:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Monroe | 116 min |
| Jan 23, 1:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Meigs, Morgan, Rhea and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:57 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | McMinn | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Campbell, Monroe, Scott | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.